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by m_ke 5y ago
One of my friends is part of PleasrDAO, dodge NFT is working out really well for him... EDIT: not saying I support it, just that ponzi schemes work for the people on top
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by m_ke 5y ago
Time for everyone to start citing Newton and Leibniz.
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by m_ke 5y ago
A combination of SQL, Redis, ES, and Columnar stores in a single package.
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Wendy Liu: Abolish Silicon Valley(youtube.com)
6 points by m_ke 5y ago|0 comments
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by m_ke 5y ago
From the few headlines that I saw snack food consumption went up a ton due to the pandemic. Being at home all day and having the fridge a few steps away must have been hard for most of us. COVID 15 is a real thing: https://www.ad
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by m_ke 5y ago
It's a lot harder to reverse obesity than prevent it. Most of these kids will grow up to be obese and deal with the health issues that come with it for the rest of their lives.
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by m_ke 5y ago
Yes I already do that. My issue is with recommendations in app, I mostly watch CS / ML lectures and for some reason youtube keeps recommending right wingers and other sensational clickbait no matter how much I click "not intereste
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by m_ke 5y ago
Somewhat unrelated but I think there should be a law to force all of these big corps to give people an opt out button to disable algorithmic feeds and recommendations.
579.
by m_ke 5y ago
Considering that we spend 4 trillion a year on healthcare now, medicare for all would save us a few trillion and cover everyone.
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by m_ke 5y ago
United Corporations of America
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by m_ke 5y ago
You can get great authentic Mexican and Indian food in Queens. The tech scene in NYC is solid these days without being in your face 24/7 like SF. Finance bros are confined to a few shitty areas of New York and can easily be avoided.
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by m_ke 5y ago
Was using a 4K monitor with an M1 macbook air and the external webcam would only work with the monitor unplugged, tried both ports.
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by m_ke 5y ago
The logic board on my M1 failed after 2 months of very light use. Was also surprised when it wouldn't let me use an external webcam while connected to an external monitor.
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by m_ke 5y ago
Because VCs have nice villas there and they expect you to be driving distance from them.
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by m_ke 5y ago
We got to pitch a bunch of top VCs for a (wellness/health) consumer app that we were building and it made me really sick that the only thing that they cared about was engagement. DAU/MAU, time spent in app and growth were the only
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by m_ke 5y ago
It's not an issue in Warsaw and most other major cities.
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by m_ke 5y ago
Twitter thread breaking this down https://mobile.twitter.com/propublica/status/140800243612462...
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by m_ke 5y ago
Most countries have universal healthcare ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Universal_Healthcare... )
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PyTorch 1.9(pytorch.org)
7 points by m_ke 5y ago|0 comments
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by m_ke 5y ago
Read my other replies, venture investing model assumes that 80% of your portfolio will go to 0 and that you hit a few unicorns that will account for most of your returns. I'm saying that Bezos can have a diversified portfolio and when
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by m_ke 5y ago
No, you make a ton of risky investments to build a diversified portfolio banking on only a few of them being unicorns. This allows you to cash out previous gains to match all of the losses that you pick up each year on the failed investment
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by m_ke 5y ago
Bezos and other rich people are sitting billions of unrealized gains. 1. Bezos gets lucky and turns $100 of founder shares into $100 billion of unrealized gains. 2. Bezos goes to the bank and gets a loan for $500 million to invest in a dive
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by m_ke 5y ago
I'm sitting on billions of capital gains and invest 20mil a pop in a diversified portfolio of startups like uber, theranos, juicero, etc. 4 years later my shares of uber are worth a billion dollars and the rest of my portfolio goes to
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by m_ke 5y ago
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/10051...
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by m_ke 5y ago
Yes, but when you're filthy rich and sit on a mountain of unrealized gains you get to be selective about how much you pull out. You can invest 100 million in startups knowing that most of it will go to 0, allowing you to later offset a
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by m_ke 5y ago
An interesting (and probably obvious to most) thing mentioned in the propublica articles is that Bezos used investment losses to offset some of the realized capital gains. As in he was able to make speculative bets on startups with no downs
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by m_ke 6y ago
There's no reason why we can't have a coop based version of a WeChat like super app with all of these services on a single shared platform. Most people don't get on planes that often so the value of global scale is not someth
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by m_ke 6y ago
Yeah. US also benefitted from being isolated from any threats by huge bodies of water, having a ton of cheap land, speaking english and being welcoming to immigrants. Thanks to this the whole global economy is tied to the dollar and runs th
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by m_ke 6y ago
> perhaps California developers talk a big game but don't put their money where their mouth is? I would expect the same bootstrapping of cooperatives but it doesn't really happen. I suspect a big factor in that is a lack of a s
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by m_ke 6y ago
What I meant by well paid was that most engineers who spent a few years at FAANGs have 6 figures in savings and can use some of that capital to kickstart a cooperative without needing venture funding. A coop could absolutely become a monopo

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